Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 15 (HBTV): The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has withdrawn its candidate from Assam's Guwahati Lok Sabha seat and demanded that the Congress withdraw their candidates from Sonitpur and Dibrugarh.   

Earlier, on February 8, AAP MP Sandeep Pathak announced that the AAP’s candidate Manoj Dhanohar will contest from Dibrugarh, Bhaven Chaudhary from Guwahati and Rishi Raj from Sonitpur. 

The Congress has named alliance partner Lurinjyoti Gogoi, president of the Assam Jatiya Parishad as the candidate from Dibrugarh, while Prem Lal Ganju is the candidate from Sonitpur. 

There are 14 Lok Sabha seats for Assam. In 2019, the BJP won nine seats with a vote share of 36.4 per cent, while Congress won three seats with a vote share of 35.8 per cent. The AIUDF won one seat, and an independent won one seat in Assam. 

On February 28, the AAP reiterated that the party will contest three seats in Assam in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls and it will help the INDI alliance in the other 11 seats in the state, said Rajesh Sharma, person in charge of the AAP’s North eastern states. He said the AAP has already declared its candidates for Guwahati, Sonitpur, and Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seats in Assam.

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